iy44: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxiii. 



This species has not been taken since originally described by 

 Nystrom in 1887. The above description is condensed from the 

 original description by Nystrom. 



Qsevis, smooth.) 



6. PARABEMBRAS Bleeker. 



rnrabembras Blp^eker, Versl. Ak. Amst. (2), VIII, 1874, p. 370 {curhis). 



Lateral line high, parallel with the back; anal fin short, of 2 spines 

 and 6 rays (figure of P. curtus Temminck and Schlegel) ; lower jaw 

 strongly projecting. 



A single species, kno^v^l only from Japan. 



{napa, near hemhras.) 



10. PARABEMBRAS CURTUS (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Bembras rwrfus Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japon., Pise, 1843, p. 42, pi. 

 XVI, figs. 6, 7 (Nagasaki). — Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 217 

 (after Schlegel).— Gunther, Cat. Fishes, II, 1860, p. 191 (after Schlegel). 



Parabembras curtus Bleeker, Versl. Ak. Amst. (2), VIII, 1874, p. 370. 



Habitat. — Island of Kiusiu. 



Head, 2 in length of trunk (figure of Temminck and Schlegel); 

 depth 6; D. IX-9; A. 8; P. 21; scales about 47 (figure); muzzle 

 short (shorter than eye in fig.); lower jaw projecting; opercular and 

 subopercular spines feeble ; teeth much fuier than in Bemhras japoni- 

 cus; infraorbital ridge with 3 denticulations. 



Color uniform reddish in the dried specimen. 



This species appears not to have been taken since it was originally 

 described by Temminck and Schlegel in 1843 from a dried specimen. 



{curtus, short.) 



Family HOPLICHTHYID^. 



Head broad and flattened, strongly armed, with upper surface and 

 sides bony; back and sides covered with bony plates; belly and 

 breast naked; two dorsal fins; ventrals I, 5 set at a moderate dis- 

 tance apart, as in Triglidx, but somewhat in front of pectorals; 3 

 detached pectoral rays, as in Triglidse; jaws, vomer, and palatines 

 with mjnute teeth; no air-bladder; pseudobranchise present. 



Japanese and Hawaiian seas; a single genus known, with four 

 species, two of which belong to Japan. 



The affinities of these fishes seem to be with the Tnglidsp rather 

 than the Platycephalidsf. 



7. HOPLICHTHYS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



IlopUchtliys Ci'ViER and Valenciennes. Hist. Nat. Poiss.. W . 1829. lalile of con- 

 tends (langsdorfi). 



Oplirhthys Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss.. IV. 1829, \>. 266 

 {langsdorfii). 



